Cash processing apparatus and method for handling deformed cash
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidekazu MORI
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Abstract
A cash processing apparatus comprises a cash insertion port, a cash storage section configured to store cash inserted through the cash insertion port, conveyed along a cash conveyance path, and determined as normal, a circuit arranged along the cash conveyance path and configured to acquire data based on which the cash inserted through the cash insertion port and conveyed along the cash conveyance path is determined as normal, abnormal, or deformed, and a controller configured to determine a total amount of cash inserted through the cash insertion point to be a sum of a first value of the cash determined as normal and a second value of the cash determined as deformed.
Claims20
A cash processing apparatus, comprising:
- a cash insertion port;
- a cash storage section configured to store cash inserted through the cash insertion port, conveyed along a cash conveyance path, and determined as normal;
- a circuit arranged along the cash conveyance path and configured to acquire data based on which the cash inserted through the cash insertion port and conveyed along the cash conveyance path is determined as normal, abnormal, or deformed;
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- a controller configured to determine a total amount of cash inserted through the cash insertion point to be a sum of a first value of the cash determined as normal and a second value of the cash determined as deformed.
A cash processing method in connection with a payment for products or services, comprising:
- determining cash inserted through a cash insertion port and conveyed along a cash conveyance path is one of normal, abnormal, or deformed;
- determining a total amount of cash inserted through the cash insertion point to be a sum of a first value of the cash determined as normal and a second value of the cash determined as deformed;
- and
- discharging change to a discharge tray, the change being determined as a difference of the sum of the first value and the second value and the payment owed for the products or services.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.